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  • October 2005 (Revised December 2006)
  • Background Note

Funding New Ventures: Valuation, Financing, and Capitalization Tables

Explains the concept of implied valuation--i.e., the valuation that can be inferred from a financing event--and how such valuations and financings are represented in a "cap" or capitalization table for a new venture. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans
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  • 13 Oct 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

  • April 2006 (Revised April 2012)
  • Background Note

The Role of Private Equity Firms in Merger and Acquisition Transactions

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Explores the importance of private equity firms in merger and acquisitions activity around the globe. In many countries, these firms now account for one quarter of the total merger and acquisition activity of all firms. The larger private equity firms generate fees for... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Value Creation
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  • 14 Jul 2015
  • News

Debt Should be a Guide to Policy Making

  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Mattias E. Fibiger
Professor Fibiger conducts research on twentieth-century international history, focusing primarily on political economy and international relations in Southeast Asia.

Professor Fibiger's first book is entitled Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast... View Details
Keywords: Authoritarianism; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; Foreign Direct Investment; Foreign Policy; Southeast Asia; United States; Finance; International Economy; International Capital Markets; History; International Relations; National Security; Government and Politics; Development Economics; Southeast Asia; United States; Indonesia; Philippines; Malaysia; Singapore
  • February 2017
  • Case

Eve Hall: The African American Investment Fund in Milwaukee

By: Steven Rogers and Alterrell Mills
The case highlights the role of minority chambers of commerce and the background of Eve Hall, a well-regarded multi-sector leader asked to revive Wisconsin's African-American chamber. This case study examines the lending options that a minority chamber of commerce... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business Plan; Change Management; Demographics; Diversity Characteristics; Ethnicity Characteristics; Race Characteristics; Investment Fund; Cost Of Capital; Banks And Banking; Micro Finance; Interest Rates; Business Or Company Management; Management Styles; Management Succession; Mission And Purpose; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Leadership Change; Business And Community Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Wealth And Poverty; Organizations; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Small Business; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Decision Choices and Conditions; Employment Industry; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry; United States; Wisconsin
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  • 05 Jul 2020
  • News

Are Stock Investors ‘Irrationally Exuberant’ Again?

  • 31 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Instagram Takeover - Kyle Hutton (MBA 2020)

Kyle Hutton (MBA 2020) took over the @hbsadmissions Instagram to show what a day in the life of an HBS MBA student is really like. Kyle is originally from Trinidad and received his undergraduate degree in Finance from Howard University in... View Details
  • May 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Debt Policy at UST Inc.

UST, Inc. is a very profitable smokeless tobacco firm with low debt compared to other firms in the tobacco industry. The setting for the case is UST's recent decision to substantially alter its debt policy by borrowing $1 billion to finance its stock repurchase... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Consumer Products Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Modern Project Finance: A Casebook

    Written as a guide to the dynamic and increasingly important field of project finance, this casebook provides detailed descriptions and analysis of 20 project-financed transactions. Other books describe what project finance is and how it works.  In this book, Benjamin... View Details
    • 13 Jul 2017
    • News

    Quiz: Can you find the artists among these entrepreneurs and bankers?

    • May 1994 (Revised May 1997)
    • Case

    Nelson Paper Products, Inc.

    By: W. Carl Kester
    A comprehensive review case that entails both investment and financing decisions. Students must value an acquisitions opportunity and determine how Nelson Paper ought to finance both the acquisition and its regular capital expenditures program. View Details
    Keywords: Cash Flow; Financing and Loans; Investment; Acquisition; Financial Strategy
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    • October 2013
    • Supplement

    Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (B)

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    This supplement presents the actual terms of the rescue financing provided by a group of private investors to CIT. It is intended to be distributed at the end of the discussion of "Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)" (HBS No. 214-035) and can be used as... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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    • December 1987 (Revised April 1996)
    • Case

    Waste Management, Inc.

    In early 1985 the CEO of Waste Management, Inc. is deliberating over several equity-linked debt alternatives to finance the retirement of debt. The teaching objective is to expose students to various forms of equity-linked debt financing alternatives. View Details
    Keywords: Equity; Borrowing and Debt; Service Industry
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    • Career Coach

    Asher Kinyon

    Asher looks forward to helping students understand and prepare for careers in the Technology and Investment Banking industries. Having spent time as an Investment Banking Analyst, several years across various roles at a hypergrowth Tech startup, and last summer at... View Details
    • 2017
    • Book

    The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return

    By: Mihir Desai
    The Wisdom of Finance takes well-known financial concepts and applies them to our most pressing life issues. The book is philosophical in its approach, but Desai's thesis is peppered with real-life examples of how financial types can and should see the world... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Financial Institutions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs
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    • March 1997
    • Case

    BioTransplant, Inc.: Initial Public Offering, January 1996

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Alexander Tsai
    Examines the decision to go public. BioTransplant is an early stage biotechnology company that must decide how to finance its research and development. The pros and cons of public offerings are analyzed versus alternative financing sources. View Details
    Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Financing and Loans; Research and Development; Going Public
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    • April 2016 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    The Walt Disney Studios

    By: Anita Elberse
    In December 2015, Alan Horn, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, celebrates the world premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens—only the latest in a string of big bets that he has overseen. Disney pursues a “tentpole strategy” that revolves around at least eight... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment; Movie Industry; Film; Creative Industries; Product Portfolio Management; Innovation; Branding; Talent; Blockbuster; Superstar; Film Entertainment; Media; Strategy; Talent and Talent Management; Creativity; Product Launch; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Marketing; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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      Royce G. Yudkoff

      Royce Yudkoff is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice of Entrepreneurial Management at the Harvard Business School and a General Partner and co-founder of ABRY Partners, LLC in Boston, MA. Alongside Professor Richard Ruback, Royce currently... View Details

      • 2019
      • Casebook

      Private Equity: A Casebook

      By: Paul A. Gompers, Victoria Ivashina and Richard S. Ruback
      This book is a collection of cases and notes that have been used in Private Equity Finance, an advanced corporate finance course offered in the second year of the Harvard Business School’s MBA curriculum, over several years. Our goal is to provide detailed insight into... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Cases
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